乌龟

tortoise───n.龟，[脊椎]乌龟（等于testudo）；迟缓的人

box tortoise───n.箱龟

giant tortoise───（动物）巨型陆龟(Geochelone)

water tortoise───水龟

amortise───vt.分期偿还；摊还（债券等）；把…转让给教会永久管理

tortoises───n.[脊椎]乌龟（tortoise的复数）

giant tortoises───（动物）巨型陆龟(Geochelone)

Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster. They decided to settle the argument with a race.───从前，有只乌龟和兔子争论谁跑得快，于是它们决定以赛跑解决这一争论。

A tortoise was complaining of her hard fate that no one would teach her to fly when an eagle hovered bear.───一只乌龟在抱怨她的努力，没有人能教她当鹰盘旋的熊。

But the next day Cho found a tortoise. We'd made it a policy not to hunt, but that tortoise jerky saved us.───但是次日裘找到了一只乌龟，我们曾经定下不猎杀的规矩，但乌龟肉还是救了我们。

A TORTOISE, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly.───一只乌龟慵懒的沐浴在阳光下，向海鸟抱怨她的苦命，没人会教她飞翔。

There was a tortoise at the foot of the hill and a dragon on the top of the hill that could spit out wine automatically.───山下有龟，山上有龙，龙还会自动往杯子里吐酒

I met a tortoise here. He looked wise. He told me that he was usually hanging about at the lakeside beyond this forest.───我在那边遇见过一只乌龟，他看起来很博学的，他告诉我他经常在这片森林远处的湖边散步。

I once saw a tortoise dead on its back.

"Thousands of people just want a tortoise and will buy them, no questions asked, " Rick Wilton, owner of a legal tortoise-breeding facility, told the Daily Mirror.

Staying in bed seems a very sensible occupation for January and February, like a tortoise.

A tortoise which is losing weight to the extent that it is approaching the danger line should be taken out of hibernation and artificially sustained for the remainder of the winter.

Meanwhile, high overhead, an eagle soared, clutching a tortoise in its talons.

Three years ago a tortoise of ours got killed like that and on just about this very spot.

To my left hand was a small ledge and on it, rather surprisingly, a tortoise appeared.

There is a big stone in the middle of the streamlet, which looks like a tortoise drinking spring water.

Common Snapping Turtle introduces our country as a tortoise being used for food since upper end of the century from USA, at present, distributes 15 provinces city , harbours amounts 400,000 or so.